ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,738, issued on April 7, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).
"Turbine row with diffusive geometry" was invented by Guillermo Paniagua-Perez (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Sergio Grasa Martinez (West Lafayette, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine row for an axial or mixed-flow fluid machine may include an airfoil, having a leading edge, a trailing edge, a pressure surface and a suction surface. The turbine row may further include two endwalls, extending from upstream of the airfoil leading edge to downstream of the airfoil trailing edge. The endwalls may define an inlet upstream of the leading edge ...